A Saiyan With Magic

Chapter 7 Looking Back

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Gohan, and Videl started looking in the library, for information on Flamel, every time that they had free time but today, the day the people going home for Christmas left, everyone except Hermione was in the Great Hall hanging out.

"Ron, Gohan, why aren't you two packed yet?" Hermione said rolling a suitcase behind her as she approached where her friends were located.

"My parents are going to visit my brother Charlie in Romania." Ron said looking at the Wizard Card, he was holding. Hermione nodded in acceptance then looked at Gohan for his reason.

"My mom called and told me to stay here." Gohan replied putting down his fork. I hate eating with these. He thought as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a pair of chopsticks. That's better. He sighed and returned to his food. His tail was swinging along behind him when Videl decided to try something new.

"Shh... don't tell him." Videl mouthed to her friends sneaking behind Gohan. She took his tail into her grasp and pulled on it.

"AAAHHHH!" Gohan screamed. Food flew everywhere as he fell out of his seat, unconscious.

"I didn't mean for that to happen." Videl said surprised as she got down on the floor and shook Gohan's shoulder, trying to get him to wake up.

"Well Happy Christmas." Hermione said stunned at the scene on the floor, she then turned around and left the Great Hall.

Twenty minutes later, Gohan was coming to, rubbing his eyes, he saw Videl hovering over him. Watching him to make sure he was alright, he assumed. Wherever he was, he was comfortable and didn't want to move from that spot.

"Where am I?" Gohan mumbled trying to focus his eyes.

"Umm...the common room. You passed out when I pulled your tail." Videl explained.

"Oh that is what that throbbing pain is." He mumbled softly.

"Mate, are you ok?"

"I'm fine." Gohan winced as he sat up.

"Gohan are you-"

"Gohan stop lying, I saw you wince just then." Videl interrupted Harry.

"I'm exhausted, I'm going to bed." Gohan said abruptly. He stood up, stretched his muscles, and wrapped his tail around his waist firmly. "Good Night."

"But it's the afternoon." Videl said.

"Not in Japan." Gohan retorted and walked up the stairs and into the boys' dorm. He went over to his bed pulled the curtains closed around himself and started to meditate. Gohan meditated all night long; for the most part, he was trying to make his tail impervious to people pulling on it. In the morning, it was Ron's voice that pulled Gohan out of his meditation.

"Wake up its Christmas!" Ron said excitedly.

"Nani?" Gohan said opening his eyes to see the mass of red hair.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing." He shook his head as he got out of bed. He stood up and stretched then followed Ron down into the common room.

"Happy Christmas!" Harry called when he saw Ron and Gohan enter the common room.

The boys then proceeded to open their presents, stopping when Videl walked down the stairs. Videl, Ron, Harry, and Gohan exchanged holiday greetings then went back to opening their gifts.

"Oh there is one left." Videl noticed a gift still under the tree, "Hey Harry what's this?" Videl passed him the package with his name on it.

"Let's see it then." Harry took the gift from her and opened it up. It looked like a mass of fabric; he found a note in the folds of the fabric. "'Your father left this in my possession before he died. It is time it was returned to you. Use it well.' No name." Harry lifted the fabric up completely out of the wrapping, "It's some sort of cloak." Harry said looking at it.

"Put it on!" Ron encouraged him. Harry swung the cloak around his shoulders and his body disappeared instantly.

"You're invisible!" Videl gasped.

"I am?" Harry looked down to where his feet should be and didn't see them, "I'm invisible." he said shocked.

"It's an invisibility cloak, those are really rare." Ron said amazed, "Wonder who gave it to you."

They had a wonderful Christmas day. The Twins, Harry, Ron, Gohan, and Videl had a snowball fight in the grounds. Before the snowball fight, Harry pulled Gohan on the side to ask more about the dragon balls.

"Well you collect them, say the summoning spell, and make your wishes. Why?" Gohan explained.

"I'd want to collect them and wish my parents back to life." Harry admitted.

"I don't see why we can't." Gohan shrugged, "We will go, and collect the dragon balls one summer, it shouldn't be too hard."

Harry and Ron played wizard chess while Gohan and Videl stayed outside to train. At one point Videl actually asked Gohan to spar with her, he declined, of course. After awhile everyone went to the Great Hall for the Christmas feast and enjoyed it. After the feast the five friends went up to bed and went to sleep, for Gohan, it was needed he hadn't slept last night. Gohan was having a great dream about the picnic he had with his family before the Cell Games.

"Ron, Gohan you gotta see this!" Harry screamed waking the two boys up.

"What happened?" Gohan sat bolt upright, his eyes scanning the room for the danger.

"There's something you've gotta see!" Harry said excitedly. Not a minute later, the three boys slipped under the invisibility cloak and walked the halls of the school to get to an empty classroom. When they entered the classroom, Harry threw the invisibility cloak off and Harry ran over to a mirror. "Come on! Come! Come look! It's my parents!"

"Uh Harry, I only see the three of us." Gohan said when he and Ron stood by Harry in front of the mirror.

"Look in properly. Go on, stand there." Harry said gesturing to Gohan as he and Ron moved out of the way, "There you see them don't you?"

"No I see my father come back to life and my mother, happy, with a baby boy in her arms." Gohan said, joy in his eyes and a smile on his face, "Ron you look; I can't see them." Gohan moved away from the mirror.

"That's me! Only I'm Head Boy and I'm holding the Quidditch Cup and bloody hell I'm Quidditch captain too! I look good! Guys do you think this mirror shows the future?"

"No my father won't come back to life, he refuses." Gohan said with a sigh.

The boys slipped back under the invisibility cloak and then went back to their dorm to get some sleep. In the morning, they met up with Videl at breakfast in the Great Hall.

"Videl follow me." Gohan said after they ate breakfast.

"Why?"

"I want to show you something." He offered.

"Fine." She agreed.

They both stood up and left the Great Hall. They walked through the halls of the castle and got to the classroom where the mirror was located. They entered the classroom and Gohan stepped in front of the mirror, Videl at his side.

"Look in the mirror and tell me what you see." Gohan directed and stepped away from the mirror.

"I see me and my mother and father together. I think its showing a 'what if.'" Videl said, staring at the mirror.

Day by day of the Christmas break, Harry, Gohan, and Videl visited the mirror to see their families again and again. Gohan would sense for kis on the way there and back to make sure that they would not get caught. The day before term was going to start, the three friends all went down to the room with the mirror covered in the invisibility cloak. They tore off the cloak and headed toward the mirror.

"Back again you three? I see that you, like many before you, have discovered the delights of the Mirror of Erised. I trust by now you know what it does. Let me give you a clue. The happiest man on earth would look in the mirror and see only himself exactly as he is." Dumbledore surprised them by speaking from the shadows.

"So it shows us what we want, whatever we want." Harry said.

"Yes and no." Dumbledore answered, "It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest and most desperate desires of our hearts. Now you Harry, who have never known your family you see them standing beside you and Gohan and Videl you wish your parents would be with you once more. But, remember this, this mirror gives us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away in front of it, even gone mad. That is why tomorrow, it will be moved to a new home. I must ask you three not to go looking for it again. It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

So how was that chapter? For those who were confused, Nani means what in Japanese. Yes, Gohan's friends still love him, and Harry did inquire about the dragon balls. So let's see what happens next. Review or friend me on facebook. Become my friend on Facebook you'll get exclusive info.

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